Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
It's normal .. you can cut off the pods so the plant can put its energy into making more flowers .. I usually cut off all but a few of the spent flowers and let the plant grow a few pods for seeds. It takes a lot of energy out of a plant to reproduce .. so you probably want to save a few of the brown cracked ones and cut off all the rest.
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